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Satellite Loaded With AI For Self-Diagnosis

Posted by timothy on from the would-it-prevent-ben-afleck-movies dept.

TheReckoning writes "NASA has loaded its E0-1 Satellite with Artificial Intelligence to diagnose on-board failures. The software 'works by comparing a computerized model of how the spacecraft's systems and software should perform against actual performance. If the spacecraft's behavior differs from the model, then the ... "reasoner" looks for the root cause of this difference and gives flight controllers several suggestions of what might have gone wrong.' Another NASA probe loaded with AI was Deep Space 1."

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  1. That qualifies as "AI"? by aicrules · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure, any automated response can be called AI, but this doesn't impress me.

    If all an AI module can do is make objective suggestions, it's nothing more than a list of conditional statements. Whoopideedoo!

    I can run similar "AI" on my TI-85. And I could write it all from scratch in the time it takes for a launch vehicle to reach the stratosphere.

    The web servers of 10 years ago could "suggest" that an "Object may have moved", so is that artificial intelligence? I guess it's really, really dumb AI....